bIRC
bIRC is an IRC client for your Mac, suited to you if you participate in IRC communities and want searchable conversations, multiple profiles, and control over alerts and privacy.
by Fredrik Blank
What you get
Keep your IRC conversations organized, searchable, and easier to follow.
With bIRC, you can follow IRC communities on your Mac without squeezing every conversation into one view. Keep profiles separate, open chats in multiple windows or split views, and see where you left off in each conversation. Search message history stored on your device when you need to find an earlier discussion or mention.
You can give important messages your attention while quieting the rest. Highlight keywords, ignore unwanted messages, and mute individual channels or networks. Adjust fonts and text size for comfortable reading, or use VoiceOver announcements. If you use a ZNC or soju bouncer, you can connect through it, with network management available for soju.
You also get control over how you connect: use supported proxies, including Tor with remote DNS. The app has no analytics or tracking, and remote images and link previews stay off unless you enable them.
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Find earlier discussions
You can search on-device message history and track what you have read in each conversation.
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Follow several conversations
You can keep profiles separate and arrange chats across multiple windows or split views.
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Reduce unwanted interruptions
You can mute channels or networks, ignore messages, and highlight keywords that matter to you.
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Read more comfortably
You can adjust text size and fonts, use VoiceOver announcements, and respect your Reduce Motion preference.
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Control remote content
You choose whether to load remote images and previews, with requests routed through your configured proxy when enabled.
Best for
- You participate in several IRC communities
- You use a ZNC or soju bouncer
- You want searchable IRC history and selective alerts
Skip it if
You do not need bIRC if you only chat through services other than IRC.
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From the developer
bIRC is a modern IRC client for macOS with extensive IRCv3 support. Features • Multi-profile • Multi-window and split view • iCloud sync. • JavaScript scripting API. • Color schemes and fonts, with optional custom CSS. • On-device, searchable message history, mentions, scrollback, and per-conversation read tracking.Read the full description
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